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Incarceration Nation

From the auction block to the cell block there is a trajectory
from slavery to Jim Crow to the Drug War. The latter has resulted in mass
jailings characterized by deep racial disparities. About one-third of young
black men are likely to go to jail. The criminal justice system functions as a
contemporary system of racial control. Millions of people, primarily poor people of color, have been swept into
the nation’s prisons and then relegated to a permanent second-class status in
which they are stripped of the basic civil and human rights supposedly won in
the civil rights movement. The numbers are numbing. In all,
2.3 million are behind bars and another 4.8 million are on probation and
parole. The more people locked up, the more profits for the Corrections
Corporation of America, the largest private prison owner and operator.

This event was presented by the Lannan Foundation.

Speaker(s):

Michelle Alexander is a professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project in Northern California, she served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. She is the author of the bestseller The New Jim Crow.